John's language such as 'i've always wanted to join the army, and to what's the word? er save, or hold onto our ' suggests he is unsure. 'My Boy Jack' by David Haig. ISBN/EAN: A-level English Language-Literature Summer Bridging Task. In the poem My Boy Jack one can feel the sorrow felt by Kipling as a parent who has lost their son to war. The poem is bleak and melancholy and is like a. Kipling never wrote directly about the loss of his son but ‘My Boy Jack’ is clearly a thinly disguised poem about mourning and regret and also the importance of sacrifice. The father of a sailor asks for news of his son who has seemingly been lost at sea. The answers he . My Boy Jack is set during—and in the direct lead-up to—World War I, which began in and ended in More specifically, the battle in which Jack goes missing is the Battle of Loos, which was on the Western Front in France and spanned from September 25th to October 8th in · In the poem "My Boy Jack", Kipling may have felt guilty about pushing his son to fight, but he still felt intense patriotism and civic duty. He knew that young men did have to die for their country and still believed the British military to be the glory of the age. Metaphor. Kipling uses the word tide in .
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